Although blame shows Stefan Lay removed the block in commit 05fa1713, this isn't what happened. It was actually removed in commit 2302a6d3 by Christian Halstrick. It looks like blame gets confused around this section of the JGit history. Repository URL: git://egit.eclipse.jgit/jgit.git $ git blame -L 1080, --reverse 40fa75feb..master -- org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/storage/file/RefDirectoryTest.java 283a60d1 (Shawn O. Pearce 2011-05-26 17:25:59 -0700 1080) } 05fa1713 (Stefan Lay 2011-05-24 01:38:59 -0700 1081) 05fa1713 (Stefan Lay 2011-05-24 01:38:59 -0700 1082) /** 05fa1713 (Stefan Lay 2011-05-24 01:38:59 -0700 1083) * Kick the timestamp of a local file. 05fa1713 (Stefan Lay 2011-05-24 01:38:59 -0700 1084) * <p> 05fa1713 (Stefan Lay 2011-05-24 01:38:59 -0700 1085) * We shouldn't have to make these method calls. The cache is using file 05fa1713 (Stefan Lay 2011-05-24 01:38:59 -0700 1086) * system timestamps, and on many systems unit tests run faster than the 05fa1713 (Stefan Lay 2011-05-24 01:38:59 -0700 1087) * modification clock. Dumping the cache after we make an edit behind 05fa1713 (Stefan Lay 2011-05-24 01:38:59 -0700 1088) * RefDirectory's back allows the tests to pass. 05fa1713 (Stefan Lay 2011-05-24 01:38:59 -0700 1089) * 05fa1713 (Stefan Lay 2011-05-24 01:38:59 -0700 1090) * @param name 05fa1713 (Stefan Lay 2011-05-24 01:38:59 -0700 1091) * the file in the repository to force a time change on. 05fa1713 (Stefan Lay 2011-05-24 01:38:59 -0700 1092) */ 05fa1713 (Stefan Lay 2011-05-24 01:38:59 -0700 1093) private void BUG_WorkAroundRacyGitIssues(String name) { -- Shawn. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html